The Philosophical Aspects of Development of Rational Cognition

In the article the historical-philosophical aspect of the problem of rational cognition has been analyzed. Dialectical, historical and general logical methods such as analysis, synthesis and generalization of separate facts and data have been used in the work. Antique tradition divides senses, common sense and reason. This tradition was developed in the works of I. Kant and G. Hegel. To the middle of the 20th century in philosophy and science was acknowledged division into sensual and rational cognition. It has been concluded that today there are different kinds of interpretation of cognition: analytical, phenomenological, hermeneutical, psychoanalytical, transcendental, Marx's, evolutional, etc.